NML on embryo research, cloning and designer babies
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- Created on: 10-09-20 19:56
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- NML on Embryo research, cloning and designer babies
- Primary Precept objections
- Creation of the embryo via IVF breaks 3 of the primary precepts:
- Worship God
- 'Playing God'
- God alone is the creator of life.
- It's his gift to give.
- Reproduction
- Wrong to separate the sexual act from the procreative act.
- Shouldn't separate the procreative purpose from the unitive.
- Wrong to separate the sexual act from the procreative act.
- Living in an ordered society
- Separating the unitive from the procreative may pose a threat to marriage and family harmony.
- Thus, breaks the basis of a harmonious society.
- Unitive = the physical union between a man and women in intercourse.
- "establishes the domination of techology over the origin and destiny of the human person" - Catholic Church Catechism (CCC).
- Separating the unitive from the procreative may pose a threat to marriage and family harmony.
- Worship God
- Creation of the embryo via IVF breaks 3 of the primary precepts:
- Destruction of Embryos
- Breaks the Primary Precept of preservation of innocent life.
- Seen as the equivalent to murder.
- "The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception". -CCC.
- Breaks the Secondary Precept of the comandment 'Do Not Kill'.
- In NML, both the intention and the act must be good.
- The intention of most uses of the embryo is good (eg. curing neurone disease).
- However, the action is still wrong due to the list given above.
- The intention of most uses of the embryo is good (eg. curing neurone disease).
- Breaks the Primary Precept of preservation of innocent life.
- Creation of designer babies
- Breaks 2 Primary Precepts:
- Worship God
- God is taken out of the equation as his design is changed.
- Playing God
- Living in an ordered society
- Assesses value in terms of usefulness to society and devalues the weak.
- Discrimination based on wealth.
- May lead to a race of super-humans.
- "Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and his integrity and identity, which are unique and unrepeatable" - CCC
- Worship God
- Breaks 2 Primary Precepts:
- Primary Precept objections
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